"Canada used to seem a progressive and just neighbor, but the picture today looks less rosy," says the column, "Our Not-So-Friendly Northern Neighbor," written by University of Montreal political science professors Laurence Bherer and Pascale Dufour.

"One of its provinces has gone rogue, trampling basic democratic rights in an effort to end student protests against the Quebec provincial government’s plan to raise tuition fees by 75 percent."

Quebec Premier Jean Charest's Bill 78, which places what the column calls "draconian" restrictions on demonstrations, has been largely demonized as an attack on civil liberties. The law, effective until July 2013, makes it illegal to protest without alerting police to the date, route and attendance numbers beforehand. The laws also limit where groups can protest, and holds organizing student groups responsible for third-party tag-alongs who destroy property or stray from the approved route.

Under Bill 78, any violation could slap student groups with a fine of up to $125,000. Bherer and Dufour say the laws and steep fines are Charest's Orwellian solution to halting the months of unrest after refusing to find a resolution though mediation.

Elsewhere in New York City, people gathered to mark the 100th day of Quebec's uprising. The Village Voice reports that students and activists protested outside the Quebec government's offices at Rockefeller Plaza and marched through Manhattan. Later, a few hundred people gathered in Washington Square to discuss student debt and education, while volunteers handed out the red felt squares that have become the symbol of the striking Quebecois students.

Just as English Canada took some time to understand and cover the Quebec student movement, international media is slowly but surely taking note of the protests that have become the largest ever in the province's history.